The State Department’s terrorism data pipeline was reorganized right before the Iraq invasion

Evidence

Where do the data come from? Since the 1980s, the U.S. State Department has, by congressional mandate, issued an annual report on global terrorism. Until 2003, State officials collected annual summaries from embassies across the world, compiling them into a global catalog with simple statistics. After the attacks of September 11 and shortly before the American invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration changed the reporting procedure. It created the (ominously named) Terrorist Threat Integration Center, which took over responsibility for preparation of the annual catalog and which, in turn, compiled reports from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense. Descriptive details, nevertheless, seem to have come largely from press reports. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 846

Categorization

• XREF: The timing (post-9/11, pre-Iraq) of the catalog’s restructuring feeds the reader’s interest in how institutional absorption of subordinate-group claims counters dominant-group politicization, and who controls the official record.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 846